Rush Limbaugh slams Hillary Clinton on Boko Haram

Doubling down on his criticism of the response to the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, Rush Limbaugh said Hillary Clinton — as secretary of state — wouldn’t designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group because they’re black.

“The Boko Haram leader, or whoever Boko Haram had perform on video, is a good-looking guy. This is why Mrs. Clinton wouldn’t call this terror group a terror group, because they’re black,” Limbaugh said Monday on his radio program, “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” according to a transcript. “Can’t afford to do this. This is how surface conscious the left is.”

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Clinton has faced some criticism from the right after a report by The Daily Beast said that under her tenure, the State Department “fought hard against” labeling Boko Haram as a terrorist group. Secretary of State John Kerry designated the organization as a terrorist group in November 2013.

Limbaugh previously criticized the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag campaign, calling it “pathetic” and repeated those criticisms on his show Monday. The Twitter campaign took off last week in response to the April kidnappings of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls from a remote Northeast region in Nigeria. Boko Haram, which reportedly released another video Monday of some of the girls, claimed responsibility for the kidnappings last week.

The conservative radio host said Monday that the group “escapes any scrutiny” and added that it wasn’t classified as a terrorist organization earlier due to racial politics.

“We can’t call them terrorists because they look like African-Americans, and we just can’t go there,” Limbaugh said. “Nobody will ever convince me that that’s why they didn’t call this group a terror group. Just can’t do it. Just can’t go there because the left doesn’t go any deeper than skin when identifying people.”

He continued: “If you’ve got a group of terrorists who are, particularly from a foreign country, not domestically, and they’re black, we can’t call ‘em a terror group. No, no, no, no, no, that will not help us domestically politically.”